Today, a new coalition of industry leaders, open source companies, and civil society has come together with OpenForum Europe to urge the EU to invest a minimum of €350 million to maintain critical open source software underpinning Europe’s digital…

OpenForum Europe (OFE) has released its much-anticipated report, Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: A Study on the Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF). Developed in collaboration with Fraunhofer ISI…

  The Call for Proposals deadline for the OpenForum Academy Symposium 2025 has been extended to 23:59 CET on June 18, 2025. Submit your work here. The Cambridge Forum on Technology and Global Affairs, an open access journal from Cambridge University Press, has…

With the new European Commission and Parliament in place – as well as a dramatically different international outlook – the EU is increasingly focused on building independent digital alternatives, often framed through the lens of ‘digital sovereignty’. This has, for example, been made…

The OpenForum Academy (OFA) is pleased to announce its roster of Content Partners for the upcoming OFA Symposium 2025. This year’s Symposium will benefit from the perspectives and expertise of three leading organisations in this space as Content Partners: the Open Knowledge Foundation,…

OpenForum Europe (OFE) is excited to announce that we have joined 15 other leading open source organisations – and many more soon to come – in endorsing the United Nations (UN) Open Source Principles. This follows the initial endorsement by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and is in…

“The OFA Symposium is a valuable platform for recognising and raising the research profile of early career scholars, as they contribute to enriching interdisciplinary discussions on the…

For anyone trying to understand the AI Act, but in particular those of us working with open source, this post will hopefully provide useful starting points. First, some good news: the European Commission recently published a third draft of the AI Act Code of…

The EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025, held on 31 January in Brussels, brought together policymakers, industry leaders, and open source advocates from across Europe to discuss the crucial role of open source software (OSS) in shaping Europe’s digital…